Got to win that race to the race buggy.

All he’s holding onto is the steering wheel. This could end poorly…

I wonder wear the other 4 cars are…

Reminds me of 1251 a bit

I got ten dollars says the guy beats the buggy.

Le mans style- running to your car at the start

Does it have an engine even? Is he kicking the ground to make it roll?

@Norikins said:
"Does it have an engine even? Is he kicking the ground to make it roll?"

I think it has no brakes and he’s putting his foot on the wheel to slow down, like Indiana Jones in the mine cart

Oh, this is from a time when I needed tires and minifigures. I remember getting at least 6 of these. I think I still have a couple sealed, stored somewhere.

I had this set, though not from Lego, but from some bootleg brand. As a kid in the 00s, it was the only way for me to play with the sets from the 90s, which already back then had a certain charm to them that appealed to me. As you can imagine, the quality of those bootleg bricks was noticeably worse, but I pretended I'm playing with the real thing. And well, at least the fond memories are real.

@skypilot22 said:
" @Norikins said:
"Does it have an engine even? Is he kicking the ground to make it roll?"

I think it has no brakes and he’s putting his foot on the wheel to slow down, like Indiana Jones in the mine cart
"

I think he's pushing it to make it go, like a scooter. Because that thing clearly has no engine

Props to the photographer for the pose.

I had this one! Took it with me on my first day of middle school.

I always found it weird, that this tiny impulse set contains an exclusive part: The 1x2 Tile with number 5 print (it's technically in the re-releases of it as well, but that doesn't count...).

What's also odd about it, is the fact that it was featured in the original Lego Creator game from 1998 (the PC game, NOT the Theme and NOT the board game), despite clearly not being a Town Juniors set given it's packaging style,

@Brickalili said:
" @skypilot22 said:
" @Norikins said:
"Does it have an engine even? Is he kicking the ground to make it roll?"

I think it has no brakes and he’s putting his foot on the wheel to slow down, like Indiana Jones in the mine cart
"

I think he's pushing it to make it go, like a scooter. Because that thing clearly has no engine "

It has an engine, those 1x1 cylinder bricks in the back. What it *doesn't* have is any excuse for the rollbar in front of said 1x1s.

@Atuin said:
"I always found it weird, that this tiny impulse set contains an exclusive part: The 1x2 Tile with number 5 print (it's technically in the re-releases of it as well, but that doesn't count...).

What's also odd about it, is the fact that it was featured in the original Lego Creator game from 1998 (the PC game, NOT the Theme and NOT the board game), despite clearly not being a Town Juniors set given it's packaging style,"

interesting. Maybe that counts for the high price?

@PurpleDave said:
" @BrickClones said:
"$70 dollars is crazy! "

Look, can we all agree that anyone who actually pays that much for one copy of this set is henceforth banned from ever complaining about the price of new sets? And also that they owe each of us one $70 set of our choice for every violation?"

I completely agree! People will complain about the new prices and then will spend absurd amount of money on tiny sets from 30 years ago

@Maxbricks14 said:
"The amount of tiny race cars that they made in the 90s is insane."

Is it really, when things like this exist ? 71049-14 LEGO Collectables - F1 Race Cars - Sealed Box , 12 different very tiny race cars

And if minifig scale, 2025 City alone has 6 soapbox racers in 1 year.

I won't include the City F1 cars as that's basicly 2025 version of the era of 6395 Victory Lap Raceway or 6337 Fast Track Finish Town racing sets.

I don't know how many different set numbers this set has (polybag-ish sets in the 90s seem to generally have at least three), but I know this isn't the version my brother had, solely because it has a 1999 release and I gave it to him for Christmas 1997. Since he ALSO got 6546 that Christmas, and since that set was larger, it got to have the named character (from the LEGO Mania Magazine) of Eddie Octan. That meant that this very similar race car driver got named Andy Octan.

Andy would be a pretty good racer--consistently taking third, despite driving a dune buggy--but an even better politician, becoming mayor of our largest metropolis.

@Formendacil said:
"I don't know how many different set numbers this set has (polybag-ish sets in the 90s seem to generally have at least three), but I know this isn't the version my brother had, solely because it has a 1999 release and I gave it to him for Christmas 1997. Since he ALSO got 6546 that Christmas, and since that set was larger, it got to have the named character (from the LEGO Mania Magazine) of Eddie Octan. That meant that this very similar race car driver got named Andy Octan.

Andy would be a pretty good racer--consistently taking third, despite driving a dune buggy--but an even better politician, becoming mayor of our largest metropolis. "

Typically those "polybag-ish" (nice word btw) sets had 2 versions, that's correct. It was usually:
-Polybag version for NA
-Boxed version for rest of the world

Not sure if that's because polybags were some marketing trend in the US back then or it's a relic from the Samsonite era. Anyways, mostly a regional difference.

The fact that a few pop up with a third number is due to some got re-released as either a Kabaya promotion (Japan only) or during a weird US promo where a few older ones got a US boxed version in 1999 (typically featuring some outlandish re-branding as a different theme).

The one you're referring is most likely 6406-1.

And to be a little nitpicky - the name's spelled "Eddie Octane", like the chemical, not the Lego Town company :D

But well observed, almost forgot to mention the character.

@Atuin said:
"Typically those "polybag-ish" (nice word btw) sets had 2 versions, that's correct. It was usually:
-Polybag version for NA
-Boxed version for rest of the world"

Weird, then, that the reverse was true for Bionicle mask packs, where NA got the boxes and EU got the bags.